Transportation Headlines

Oh 👋 @Omnitrans pic.twitter.com/6xbmOnkQRJ — Auto Club Speedway (@ACSupdates) October 11, 2018 Well, I’d pay to see 40 buses trading paint in Fontana. But that’s me. I’m going to try a different format today — a little more newslettery. Just to see how it goes and to see if I [continue reading]

Dept. of Dodger Stadium Express: The free bus from Harbor Gateway and Union Station to the ballpark will be running for all post-season games, starting with tomorrow’s game against the Cumberland Braves. More here on the DSE. One intriguing scenario: the A’s and Dodgers meeting in the 2018 World Series, [continue reading]

Dept. of Outside the Box: One reader says identifying L.A.'s rail lines by letter or number is "too sterile and officious." Instead, officials "should name them after animals and make the lead car shaped like them, like at amusement parks, the giraffe line, the elephant line." pic.twitter.com/ilbSKDq7V6 — Laura J. [continue reading]

Dept. of Ridership in Washington D.C.: Whatever your thoughts on chalking up broader trends to "millennials", the blue line in this graph represents a genuine crisis for Metro. Younger riders [continue reading]

Art of Transit: A couple of shots of construction progress on the new rail yard adjacent to LAX that will serve the Crenshaw/LAX Line. And here is some video of the work done earlier this summer to restore Crenshaw Boulevard above the Leimert Park underground station: Dept. of Zero Emissions: [continue reading]

Dept. of Behind the Scenes at Expo Line rail yard: follow Metro on Instagram for more like this. Art of Transit: Above: concrete block cutting at the future Crenshaw/Expo underground [continue reading]

Art of Transit: View this post on Instagram New Crenshaw/LAX Line station at Fairview Heights. ▪️ #GoMetro #nextstop #crenshawlax A post shared by Metro (@metrolosangeles) on Aug 30, 2018 at 8:43am PDT Throwback Thursday One Day Late: Building the Blue Line in 1989 in DTLA… Bird And Lime, [continue reading]

Therese is Metro’s chief planner. Good conversation on Black Kids in Outer Space. Dept. of NextGen Bus Study: Metro is in the midst of a study to restructure its bus network. This online tool allows you to rank your priorities, basically along the lines of more frequency on some corridors [continue reading]

You may have caught the news, which was announced by The Boring Company on Wednesday night. From the firm’s website: The Boring Company is proposing to build Dugout Loop, a zero-emissions, high-speed, underground public transportation system from the Los Feliz, East Hollywood, or Rampart Village neighborhoods to Dodger Stadium in [continue reading]